1. Introduction to Genetics

Proteomics is the study of what?

True or False: 

Single nucleotide polymorphisms are common in the human population.

Bioinformatics is especially useful at what?

Write a brief essay that discusses the impact of recombinant DNA technology on genetics as we perceive the discipline today.

How do you think the determination that DNA is the hereditary material affected the direction of biological research?

What is the central dogma of biology? Identify and describe the molecular processes that accomplish the flow of genetic information described in the central dogma.

Ethical and social issues have become a large part of the public discussion of genetics and genetic testing. Choose two of the propositions presented here and prepare a list of arguments for and against them.

Gene therapy should be used on humans when it can correct a hereditary condition such as sickle cell disease.